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Hello, I hope you can help me. I did a scan with Microsoft's Antispyware program and it told me that there was a chance that IE had been hijacked. My computer has certainly been doing unusual things lately and isn't running as smoothly as it once was. Any help will be greatly appreciated....OG.

Hi Grinler, Still having problems I'm afraid. Since I did that fix you suggested the computer has been running a lot better, programs load much quicker and are smoother running. The problems start when switching user from my wife to me, I click on my name and instead of going to my desktop, I either get a blue screen or the screen-saver comes on. When I finally get to my desktop it loads a bit here and a bit there till it's done, and the icons take a long time to colour in. I also see a blue border come on the screen momentarily. Something else that happened, I put the computer to sleep and when I returned some time later the fan was going like the clappers. One last thing, under my wifes name on the welcome screen it says that there is one program running when I know for a fact that she has shut everything down. I don't know how relevant it is because it's always telling me that I have emails when they've already been sorted. Thanks for your help....OG.

Hi Grinler, Just to clarify, do you want me to do those alterations to my account or my wifes? I'm also not sure what you mean by "give me a log from your wifes login". Thanks for your continued help......OG.

This is why i normally dont like doing two different logs in the same topic as it can get confusing.

You can ignore those isntructions above. I got confused on the accounts. Your wifes log is completely clean an that running program is probably one of those above that I was going to have you turn off which are harmless.

Lets see a log from your account and we will click up some optional, not bad, entries to see if we can speed up the logon

Hi Grinler, I did those alterations to my startup like you suggested and I really thought that it had cured it. That running program has disappeared and I flipped backwards and forwards between mine and my wife's account numerous times, went on to the Internet and didn't have any problems at all.

Then I left the computer and the screensaver came on, but when I woke it up again and clicked on my name in the welcome screen, it went momentarily to my desk top and loaded a small piece of it and then the screen went blank. I had to wake the computer up again and the welcome screen came on again and I clicked on my name and my desktop loaded the same as before, a bit at a time, and the icons were slow to colour in.

I don't know if this is relevant or not but I keep getting a warning message from Microsoft Spyware programme saying 'A new Winsock LSP has been added'.

It seems to me as though it is something to do with the screensaver coming on? Do you think it is? Thanks again.......OG.